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Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:03:22 +0000http://scifistandpoint.wordpress.com/?p=101#comment-1446Look, I’ve been a friend of Harlan’s for years and this collection is maybe not his finest (DEATHBIRD STORIES would reach the highest I suppose), but it treats the reader to a great deal of thought motivation. Read it and let the stories simmer in your mind for a while before you pass judgment.
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Mon, 16 Sep 2013 05:39:47 +0000http://scifistandpoint.wordpress.com/?p=2422#comment-1255I take a rather different view of Lucas’s work. In the early 1970s, George Lucas was this erratic angry young genius who gave us mind-blowing films like “American Graffiti.” And then he started doing science fiction. I view Star Wars as a technically gorgeous–especially for the time–but otherwise not particularly imaginative or original space-opera that, despite all the gushing by latter-day critics, seems to me to be far closer kin to the 1930s adventure serials we are now taught to regard as forgettable and corny than anything from Kurosawa, much less anything “mythic” or “Campbellian.”

And then, God help us all, because the original made so much money at the theaters, he made a sequel. And a sequel of a sequel. And trilogy sequels of trilogies, every film less substantial than the last. The angry young visionary who gave us “American Graffiti” turned into a tired old hack who pumps out an endless stream of self-parody, mind-numbing escapist crap drizzled with watered-down Hollywood Zen Buddhism and really unfortunate implications about the heroes being members of some kind of natural genetic aristocracy of Aryan Übermenschen, in between all the explosions of course, and, of course, all the merch, from toys to t-shirts to video games.

The irony here is that Lucas is, or used to be, a very imaginative producer and screenwriter, but as a director he’s uneven at best, and, frankly, everything he’s touched in forty years that isn’t Star Wars or Indiana Jones has turned to shit–box office bomb after box office bomb after box office bomb, from Howard the Duck to Ishtar to Tucker, the man has the inverse Midas Touch. But never mind that, let’s put Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford on hand-trucks and wheel them out in front of the cameras again, with lots of big CGI explosions and chortling cartoon villains to kill bloodlessly off-camera. Bullwhips or death-rays, which will it be today? You’ll excuse me if I take a nap.

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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:09:35 +0000http://scifistandpoint.wordpress.com/?p=1154#comment-1253Jem is a fantastic journey to another planet, where the air abounds with an ocean of life. where the creatures talk their own language, and learn each-others, especially after aliens to their world appear, kidnapping and destroying some of them.
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Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:37:04 +0000http://scifistandpoint.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-1252I love this book, I think it’s great – have good characters and plot. Few refer to politycs and sociology make you wane rething some ideas.
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